Improvement in presses for cider-mills



NITED STATES PATENT OEEIICE.

MICHAEL STEVENS, OF SMITHVILLE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRESSES FOR CIDER-MILLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,824, dated July 31, 1866.

declare that lche following is a full, clear, andV exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

lIn the annexed drawings, A represents a franje, upon which is a platform7 B, and upon this platform are erected two boxes, which receive and in which the pomace is pressed. Upon the frame Al are erected two uprights, D, which said nprights are connected at their upper ends by means of a cross-beam, E. Screws F F pass through the cross-beam E, and serve, to press upon heads in the boxes, for the purpose of pressing the cider from the pomace.

G represents a box attached to the crossbeam, and in this box is a grindingapparatus, and beneath this grinding-mill is a turningboard to turn the pomace into either box.

The insides of "the boxes C C are lined with slats c c c c, which are placed vertically and a short distance apart, said slats being beveled on their edges, as represented.

H H represent square `frames, which I call cider-conductors. These frames are made as follows: I take a square board first, (marked 61,) and groove it in two ways, as shown in Figure 5, the grooves running crosswise, or crossing each other at right angles. I then take slats e, bevel their edges, and secure them at a little distance apart upon each side of this board d. That side of the slat which is narrowest is secured to the board, and the openings made by separating them are directly over one of the series of grooves in the board, as shown in Fig. 3.

It will be seen that when one or more of these boards is placed in the boxes C, between the pomace, cider will run into the grooves in it, both up and down, and be conveyed away to the sides of the box; thence it descends through the grooves between the slats c c to the platform B.

The great advantage from these conductors is in pressing'large quantities of pomace in a` box. When the conductors are distributed properly through the pomace the cider passes readily into the grooves in it, and it becomes as easy to press in this manner a large body as well and as quickly as a small quantity.

I do not lay any claim to the general principles of this press in this application 5' but,

Having thus fully described my improvement, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The conducting-board H, when constructed and used in a press-box, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

In evidence that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of Atwo witnesses.

MICHAEL STEVENS.

Witnesses D. L. KIEEEEE, R. Z. KIEEEEE. 

